Shelby Bremer is a reporter for NBC 7 San Diego. She developed her passion for journalism during her time at NBC Chicago, where she began as an intern and spent nearly nine years as a producer.
Shelby has covered a wide range of breaking news and enterprise stories, but she is particularly proud of her political and investigative reporting. She enjoys using public records requests and in-depth research to uncover stories that hold institutions accountable. Her work has earned multiple Emmy Awards, a national Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, and she was a duPont-Columbia Award finalist for her series “Left for Dead: Hit, Run, and Ignored,” which investigated the Chicago Police Department’s inaction on hit-and-run crashes.
Born and raised in the Chicago area, Shelby earned her bachelor’s degree in Communication with a Spanish minor from DePauw University. Outside of journalism, she enjoys yoga, traveling, reading, and making the most of the San Diego sunshine.
Have a story idea or want to connect? Send Shelby an email.
The Latest
-
One month later, family still searching for missing Oceanside nurse Angelica Brophy
One month after Oceanside mother and ER nurse Angelica Brophy disappeared, investigators say the case remains active as her family continues searching for answers.
-
Man accused of assaulting couple after Carlsbad crash has record, prosecutors say
A man suspected of stabbing a man and striking a woman after the individuals were involved in a car crash on a freeway off-ramp in Carlsbad appeared in court Wednesday to face charges.
-
Deported father of U.S. Marine sues ICE, DHS
The father of a U.S. Marine who was quickly deported last fall after he and his wife were detained trying to visit their daughter at Camp Pendleton is now suing ICE and the Department of Homeland Security.
-
Líderes laborales y empresariales de San Diego exigen respuestas sobre los retrasos en DACA
Los líderes de los sindicatos y del sector empresarial de San Diego se reunieron para denunciar los retrasos de varios meses en la tramitación de las renovaciones del programa DACA.
-
‘Slap in the face': DACA renewal delays cost recipient her job; Local leaders want answers
Leaders from San Diego’s labor unions and business community came together Tuesday to sound the alarm on months-long delays in processing for DACA renewals that have caused some recipients to lose their jobs as their status expires while they wait.
-
Comunidad haitiana de San Diego teme por el fin del TPS; el ICE intensificará los arrestos
Un responsable de la Administración Trump ha declarado a NBC News que el ICE tiene previsto intensificar las detenciones y deportaciones de haitianos tras el fin del TPS.
-
San Diego's Haitian community afraid as TPS ends, ICE to ramp up arrests
As Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, ends for Haitians and Syrians on Monday, a Trump Administration official told NBC News that ICE is planning to ramp up arrests and deportations of Haitians as that status runs out, sending fear and panic through the Haitian community in San Diego.
-
Se desata el caos por la presencia de agentes federales en City Heights
El jueves se vivió una escena caótica en el barrio de City Heights de San Diego, cuando activistas y manifestantes se congregaron en una zona donde había presencia de agentes federales.
-
Chaotic scene unfolds around federal agents in City Heights
A chaotic scene unfolded in San Diego’s City Heights neighborhood Thursday as activists and protesters descended on an area where federal agents had been spotted.
-
Mexico presses U.S. prosecutors on deaths in ICE custody, enforcement
The Mexican government said Wednesday it’s taken several steps in response to the deaths of 17 Mexican nationals in ICE custody or during enforcement operations since May 2025.
